silence7

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[–] silence7@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

The cruelty and harm is the point of these kinds of policy

 

Some 800 Europeans — including one Austrian, 100 Romanians and 170 Russians — are being considered for the transfers, according to one of the documents. That element of the plan has alarmed some U.S. diplomats, who note that most European countries are American allies that are cooperative in taking back deportees and that there’s no need to send the people to Guantanamo.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Its when the Sharpies give you a bad trip

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31154727

elected leaders have concluded that decisions made by PJM are one of the main reasons utility bills have soared in recent years. They said the organization had been slow to add new solar, wind and battery projects that could help lower the cost of electricity. And they say the grid manager is paying existing power plants too much to supply electricity to their states.

 

elected leaders have concluded that decisions made by PJM are one of the main reasons utility bills have soared in recent years. They said the organization had been slow to add new solar, wind and battery projects that could help lower the cost of electricity. And they say the grid manager is paying existing power plants too much to supply electricity to their states.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

More importantly, its about building public opinion in favor of impeachment in the here and now

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 28 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Its who the US military was allowed to randomly kill in Vietnam.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mostly, an effort to shift public opinion against the federal attack on citizens, to in turn pressure Trump

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

They were filming be-afraid-of-scary-brown-people propaganda

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They do. Slowly, imperfectly, and some of the time.

It's worth doing in parallel with other efforts.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They used to. They don't on vehicles made in roughly the last 8-10 years depending on manufacturer.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (7 children)

It takes active recruitment if we want the military on the side of the people.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Even the big operations break in unexpected ways. Facebook accidentally broke the authentication for their door locks when they took the site down a few years back and had to fly people to a datacenter and break down a door to get to servers and restart things.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The national guard showed up this morning after being federalized against a governor's wishes for the first time since school desegregation

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, but a bunch of today's events were in the county, not the city, and the county sheriff are the ones that are most willing to hurt people.

Edit: Gov Newsom is deploying the CHP. Hopefully they have orders to keep the other cops from going on a murder rampage

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